I wonder the best way to get acquainted with Unix. Anytime I try to look for a good Unix distribution that would work in a VM, I end up having weird quirks (Scroll up being registered as weird keypresses, or CPU Long Mode not enabled).
The OG unices were dead before X86 "long mode". You need that address space? Keypresses seems like something you could find a solution for. As others have mentioned the bsd's are probably the closest that are up to date with our time. For the vintage stuff, you might want qemu to emulate (not virtualize) your platform.
The closest easily available Unix is FreeBSD or NetBSD from a heritage point of view. In fact, both have a direct line back to the original Berkeley Systems Distribution, which itself is derived from Unix version 5.
More fun on actual hardware, but then there's the hardware support. BSD's may handle it, but better chose the OS before the computer if you like it smooth.
I'm sorry, maybe I am not as competent as I thought I would be in this life. You want people to ship a brand new feature to your product on their second day?
The kind of people who can onboard and ship a feature in a 48 period turnaround aren't working for your company, they're building startups.
I think, generally speaking there are a lot of contexts here clashing of what people mean by "feature" and "product". For some, "the product" might be a 30+ year legacy multi million loc codebase getting slowly improved, but still old and inadequate and probably full of technical debt and a lot of domain knowledge needed to navigate.
For others "the product" will be a website with a few 10k loc behind the scenes.
Getting a feature out in those two environments is not the same thing.
I don't understand how come you get podcast content pushed to you, and I have to actively search for podcast content and can't find anything outside of the bubbles I listen to without going to external sources.
Also, arguably, shuffle is not broken, it is working as intended, as there is an intended method to shuffle the songs according to popularity, right? Unless they changed that.
It also happens with my music player when playing my own library of music, it has actually gotten that bad that even random no longer works as it should.
This is why I kept all of my old CDs, Mp3s, and DVDs... One day we're going to have to boycott everything and it will be painful for those who only had subscriptions on entertainment & productivity apps.
I'll load up windows 98 if I have to! I'll do it again!
If, by painful, you mean “the need to plug in that old HDD with 100k MP3s”, keep up ratio on private trackers, and end up finding tons of amazing music again, all completely free to do anything I want with, then sure :)
Squeezebox Server was awesome, and these days it’s way easier and more accessible to host a media server and playback in ways you want.
The pain, for me at least, was in organizing all that music. I ended up with a mess of files and folders, people didn't use ID3 tags consistently (if at all) and if you need to add them yourself manually then yeah, it's a pain...
I have been saying this for years. I have a HUGE amount of CDs that I have gotten at bargain prices from thrift stores over the years (it’s been an interesting curation method), and I keep them all organized on a plex server. It’s as close to best of both worlds as you can get today imo.
I mean, you only have to open the main Spotify page. I also get podcast content pushed to me (half the main page/search results are always podcasts) and I've never even listened to one.
Again, my main spotify page ask me to continue listening to the podcast I already listen to, plus random daily playlist for music(which I actually really like a lot of the time). I don't get new content showed to be all too often, maybe a new artist a week?
I've seen these for years, and I've sent it to people who needed it, but as I get older and learn more emotional intelligence, I'm starting to consider the reality is some people just want to build relationships at work because of how terribly difficult it is to make friends as an adult.
Also, depending on your job, you may have to accept that some jobs require you to be malleable to having wrenches thrown into your flow state. It feels like people expect life to always have their boundaries in mind, but none of us are the main character here.
Pro tip - continue the casual conversation after the initial question. For a few reasons:
* If you do the social chat and then ask the question it really feels like you're buttering the person up and not being genuine.
* If you do the casual chat after, it allows the person responding more freedom of when to reply. E.g. they know the important work stuff is out of the way and now it can be a slower casual chat.
I like B&H, purchased a lot of stuff there and will continue to in the future, one note is that they're a New York-based company and everything ships from there. So if you're on the East Coast: Great! Whereas if you're on the West Coast you'll wait 2-3 more days.
That and the website used to not let you even PLACE an order during Saturdays and some other Jewish holidays. I understand not working during those, but not letting an automated system write an order to a database somewhere, was odd.
B&H is excellent. I also tend to go directly to manufacturer sites. They may actually use Amazon for fulfillment, but you can be assured that the product you get, is real.
I generally don't go for extremely reduced prices. I find that it is way too easy for scammers to take advantage of us, not paying too much attention to something we get at a good price.
Every. Single. Time. that I've gotten a "great deal" on something, it has turned out to be fake.
I have a pair of "Nike" shoes at home, that I got from Amazon, and are obvious counterfeits. I still have the original Pegasus 30 shoes, that I got at a local store, over ten years ago, and they are fine. The soles got flat, which was why I wanted to get new ones, but the shoes still work fine, and the padding is still good.
The "Nikes" that I brought from Amazon, a few years ago, crapped out, after just three or four months. They actually cracked, and I tried out a couple of other types of sneakers, over the last few years.
Nike has discontinued the Pegasus 30s, so I switched to New Balance sneakers, and I got these directly from the NB web site.
This is where I try to buy most of my electronic equipment now. The shipping is quite fast to my location (faster than Amazon Prime) and the prices are usually pretty competitive.
That question seems absolutely alien to me. Surely you have alternatives in the US, don't you? Here in Germany I visit Geizhals, search for the product in question, sort by price and order from one of the countless shops that have the product in stock.
Maybe I'll end up on Amazon, maybe not - they all can deliver quite fast and they all have to adhere to european minium return policy standards. So the handling of returns isn't something most customers ever have to think about.
If we do, I have never experienced something that works and is useful, but just by using PCPartPicker to see shops to buy electronics my choices are Best Buy, Amazon, Newegg, B&H, Gamestop, and three other companies I have never heard of. The thing about that is I don't have europeaan minimum return policy standards, so any website I don't know about can rip me off and I cannot do anything about it.
I also live in a pretty remote area, so I have to drive 45 minutes to 2 hours to be in any big box store.
Microcenter will ship items purchased online. You have to select "Shippable Items" from the "Your Store" drop-down in the center at the top of the page.
Microcenter will not ship most items online. I just did a random check and there are 0 graphic cards available to be shipped online. In comparison my local Microcenter offers 63 models of graphics cards in stock today.
I use Best Buy for commodity stuff (cables, sd cards, etc) and B&H for more "important" stuff (PC components, monitors, etc) because they have a wider selection and I like their website better for comparison shopping.
B&H is the "new Newegg" for me, since Newegg decided to jump into the flea market business after Amazon.
Microcenter does sell/ship a good chunk of their inventory online so it's an option for people that aren't close to a location. I usually make the trek to my nearest one precisely because I can avoid the issue of counterfeits by shopping there.
That's such a weird question lol, there is more online stores then Amazon and Newegg? There is hundreds. Just go buy it from literally anyone else besides Amazon if you give me your state I can probably tell you a list of about 100 that will ship there.
And because I haven't heard of them, I'm taking as much of a risk as I am with Amazon and Newegg. The best part about hacker news is asking a genuine question often receives a genuine response, and it seems like "hundreds" boils down to separate people saying B&H.
I already use parts express for my audio equipment and probably always will because their customer service is incredible, but I rarely buy pc parts anymore. I want to do a new build in the coming year and having this conversation saves me the future research.
Newegg has done (will do) this exact same thing. One of the recent vibrant examples was with a motherboard and some Youtube personality.
Basically, most businesses have outsourced doing QA as "free returns" where the customer is the ultimate judge. This only works as long as they're willing to get stuck with some of the losses from return fraud. But as they try to cost optimize and assume the incoming checkers are foolproof, they end up blaming unlucky customers in the most hostile manner.
I can argue this point right now. I have measured my foot, it is 28 CM, and I have consistently bought shoes with that size in mind without fail.
Until recently, where I have been trying to order a pair of Teva sandals (I live far away from standard stores for purchasing brand name items, and often don't do it except for shoes, beds, office chairs, etc), and I got the size that compared to 28 CM. Too big. Go down a size. Still too big. 25 CM in Teva is officially 28 CM everywhere else. Why the inconsistency?
There's a stark difference between waist size and foot size. There's not a lot you can do to change the size of your feet, but diet and exercise affect your waist.
I used to wear a 36 or 38 waist pants. I've managed to get that down to a 30, but I'm back up to a 32. I've also been buying Levi's jeans with some elastic in them, so maybe I've gone back up more, but I'm willing to lie to myself and say I'm still a 32.
How do I go about learning emacs when my job requires me to work in a M$ environment, and I have limited free time? I tried learning and felt overwhelmed, and I would like to make strides to make vim or emacs my primary editors for home use, but Visual Studio / Jetbrains just make development incredibly easier to not let the tools prevent me from just writing the code.
